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To understand Donald Trump you need to understand how he thinks. And to understand that you need to understand his history. Donald Trump’s psyche was shaped by the excesses of the Go-Go ‘80s. In the ‘80s a lot of young wannabe entrepreneurs were out to get rich fast. It was a time of cut throat [Continue]

There’s a new branch on the family tree. My nephew and his wife just had a baby. Her name is Aria and the family is all a flutter over her. She arrived in the usual way and all concerned are doing well. You know it’s funny. I never wanted kids, and in that regard I [Continue]

Was it necessary to drop the bomb on Japan? I don’t know. I know the people making the decisions at the time thought so, and they were the only ones that counted. I’m not sure that those of us that didn’t live through those times, with those experiences, and those pressures, and that history have [Continue]

Yes, yes I am on social media…some…a bit…kind of. I mean I’m on Tumblr. I like Tumblr because it’s about ideas, things, thoughts, not people. I can find what I want, be it humour, or palaeontology, by topic. Oh I do have a few people I follow, and they’re great. But overall I like the [Continue]

For as long as I can remember Haiti has been a land of misery. The terror of the Duvalier years, first Papa-Doc and then Baby-Doc, which ended badly. Then an attempt to restart democracy, however the governments were unstable, the leaders were short lived, and were interspersed with coups and a second US occupation. Overlain [Continue]

OK I’ve now finished the initial setup of the site. I’ve imported almost all of the pages from my old site. All of the “blog posts” prior to this message are the imported pages. Despite the date in the posts, they date back several years. I do have a couple more changes to make. Also [Continue]